The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-06
WENT OVER A BRIDG r..
Saturdays Railway Horror on
the Central Vermont.
A VERY HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE.
The Cries aud Shrieks of the Wounded
The Charred Bodies-sIghts
at the scene,
Another Terrible Railway Disaster.

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Another Terrible Railway Disaster
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, February 5.-Tht
night express train for Montreal, which
left here at 10 10 clock last night, rar
off bridge at Woodstock, Vt, two
miles north of White River Junction
aud the sleeping and passenger cars and
| bridge were entirely burned. it is re-
ported that there are large number OF
| persons injured. The NUN Der of killed
and burned Is also reported TO be large.
Conductor Sturtevant was fatally in
jured. The accident occurred probably
between l and 2 O'Clock this morning
on the Central Vermont road.
The accident TO the Montreal express
at Woodstock Bridge, assumes fright
full proportions as further particulars
are learned. The train was the Boston
and Montreal express on the Vermont
Central Railroad, with connections at
White River Junction with the Mon
treal express from Springfield, one
sleeping car and one passenger coach.
from which are attached to the Boston
and Montreal train. Frank Wesson,
son of d. B. Wesson,-of this city, of the
firm of Smith & Wesson, pistol manu-
faCturers, was killed, and it is re-
ported that the loss of life is large.
THE ILL-FATED TRAIN.
The train consisted of one sleeping and
passenger coach from here, one Chicago
sleeping car, connected at White River
Junction, one Boston sleeping car, one
mail car from Boston and another pas
senger coach, one baggage and one ex-
press car. There are rumors that fifty
lives were lost.
Frank l.. Wesson, who was killed,
was about 80 years of age and leaves a
wife and four children. He was brother
in-law of John w. Lowell, the New
York publisher. The latest reports re
ceived here state that the number of
killed reached twenty and that about
as many were injured.
BRADFORD Vermont, February s.
The night express which left White
filled with passengers, coaches and two
sleeping cars. plunged over the bridge
sixty feet into the river. Before the
engineer or any one could let to the
wreck the cars had caught fire and
burned. The bridge also was burned
and inside of 20 minutes all were
destroyed. It is estimated that fifty
persons were killed. Henry Tuxbury,
of West Randolph, Vermont, a we'll
known lecturer, is among those killed,
f. Dillon, of Springfield,
Vermont, was killed. He was mem
Der of the Sophomore class at Dart.
and pitcher for the University
Nine.
TROY, N. Y, February SIT is re.
ported here that sixteen persons were
killed by the accident last night on the
Vermont Central Railway near White
River Junction.
CONCORD, n. H., February 5.-The |
express train that left Boston at Z !
D 'Clock last night met with a terrible |
accident, near Woodstock, on the Cen |
trail Vermont Railroad, at about 2.3O !
} clock this morning. The train started |
rom this city on time, but was de- |
aimed at White River Junction, so it |
vas about an hour and half late when |
t left there. 1t consisted of locomo-
i've, baggage car, postal car, two pas
'enger coaches and two sleeping cars,
md was running at the usual rate of |
joeed. When about 200 yards south of |
he end OF the deck bridge, near old |
Windsor Station, a broken rail was
truck; the locomotive, baggage car
md postal car broke away from the rest
IF the train, passing over the bridge in
afety, the rest of the train was thrown
rom the rails and continued on the road
Jed until it came near the end of the
bridge, but there it ran over the abut-
nent and all of the cars fell into White
River, some fifty feet below. The gorge
It this point is frightful and when the
;ars went over there was a terrible
rash. As soon as possible, the de-
ached part of the train was stopped
md ran back to the scene of
he disaster. The shrieks of the
INJURED were heartrending. Assistance
.lso came from people living IN
he vicinity, and everything was done
o rescue and relieve the injured. Soon
fter help arrived it was discovered that
re had started in the first passenger
zach, and soon the entire train was
blaze, thus adding new horror to the
READY frightful catastrophe. Those
resent were powerless to stop
he fire, and devoted themselves !
ntirely to attempting to rescue
lOSe lnpIlSOnoU ia tue hIeCh.
TO THE RESCUE.
The rescuers met another and unex-
ected obstacle in the heat, which had
ecome so intense that they were
bliged to relinquish their efforts to
ave the sufferers, and were compelled
, retreat 10 place of safety for them
elves, and to become unwilling and /
o.ror stricken witnesses of the fearful 8
o AUST. In addition to this, and to s
do to the horrors and suffering of 1
he passengers, the weather was IN
ensely cold, and the heroic rescuers /
-ere hindered thereby in their work. + t
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